What is the function of the digestive system in general?

Answer 1

The main function of the digestive system is to take the food we eat and take out the minerals and vitamins that then get carried to the muscles in your body by the blood (circulatory system). The leftovers gets carried to your kidneys (who filter them) and anything that the digestive system didn't get gets sent back to the organs and muscles by the blood stream.

Answer 2

The function of the digestive system, is to simply digest. It has twodistinct process, mechanical and chemical. Mechanical is your teeth basically, and chemical is your stomach, intestines ect. Specifically the digestive system itself, is used to break down food being taken in and then to absorb it.

Answer 3

In really basic form, the digestive system performs the functions of turning the food we eat into energy, and getting rid of the rest as waste.

It breaks down food, absorbing things humans need such as protein and vitamins, using the sugers and carbohydrates as energy (in a converted form).

It's quite a complex system if you really go into detail about the functioning of like, the stomach, intestines, pancreas and liver, but that's really basically whats its for.

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Answer 4

To ingest and break down food to its simplest components, then extract nutrients from this components for absorption into the body. Finally, to expel waste products.

Answer 5

the pharynx is thee most important because it breaks down food

Answer 6

to process food and to help digest it

Answer 7

To break down food.